in the big old. mostly excuse greta in the steep limits medicine this is for jim pinsky money coach when you take a look at him he can scan for him. now so it's a. bit of a nuclear meltdown escalates with a threat of a second explosion a drug plans to push him out sonic power plant turns another salad declared another facility and an alternate it's believed more than ten thousand people with a big killed in the devastating earthquake and the sentiments on. libyan state t.v. reports colonel could not gain from going to win a bank or to retreat as internal calls were over him to surrender. and. get out these men had gone so eastern libya breaking bad very soon the town of ping ghazi will score you join you in a few moments of the formal. nothing news this week pushing the response on what's

in washington bruce ties and pledge to prostrate as a grasp on president bush's state of the position. they're watching on she's a weekly review welcome to the program and to our top story the situation of the fukushima nuclear plant remains grave with thing is that the second clause could occur at the facility run by friday's earthquake and tsunami and it is a bad thing to prevent a nuclear meltdown after an explosion at a reactor i was trying to two people already affected by radiation leakage they says the country declared a state of emergency at a second plant in the north east also use either bennett as a son type one of the towns worst affected by the tsunami. two hundred thousand people have been factory now the threat of nuclear meltdown still remains very high though and which means that radiation could spirit even more because two reactors

now out of power plant number one have lost their cooling system has been knocked out and the temperatures inside the reactors are increasing they're having to relieve the pressure inside the reactors by really letting out steam but with that comes radiation as well and so as a result twenty two people have been affected by radiation exposure they're being treated now by local authorities yesterday they were saying that they fear that number could be much higher in the region around one hundred sixty on our way from tokyo to sendai to just twelve hours because the roads around the nuclear power plant the main highways going to actually from that area they were shut off and we actually killed road chica to go through checkpoints and only emergency vehicles were being allowed through there would i think civilian traffic around the accusations zone on cross-country routes bypassing the radiation exposure so now they're trying to call that call those reactors down that are overheating by

seawater and the element all around because they have to call inside what they had that was actually over one hundred degrees so it wasn't actually doing anything and it was just he was being heated up by what was happening inside the reactor so what they need to do now is call those factors down without having real difficulty in seawater and will render the reactors ultimately useless if they can stop them from exploding the only explosion that's happened at least. plant one of the reactors that happened on saturday it was feared that the vessel the reactor itself has melted. but because there were radioactive fuels and trace them outside of city cesium and i had seen it which suggested that there had been nuclear meltdown were beginning stages of it and then the authorities started to look at why. the vessel have actually been damaged now less impressed with the fuel rods and i actually started to melt and they fear that might be happening at the

second reactor now that's been under a state of high alerts but here hundred kilometers away in sendai that's not the fear of radiation but the fear here is actually of another earthquake. those japanese local media is saying that there's a very high chance of an aftershock reaching a magnitude seven of the massive earthquake that started this task of magnitude nine so it's going to be a very powerful one if it happens next that to happen in the next three to seven days sendai actually in the center here in a sense that there isn't actually any damage to say to the buildings that most of the damage is on the coast which will be heading to very shortly this morning i'm actually sitting inside one of the relief centers where i've spent leave with it and the night because there's no accommodation inset in sendai the whole city way is suffering is that is its infrastructure there's no electricity no power no heating no water and very little food and it was very cold last night inside here

is eighteen floors and basically every single floor space is covered with lost life and it was covered with people bedding down for the night lying on sheets of cardboard about me two and a half long they've been given blankets or the damage across countries is simply a whole towns have been completely wiped out and the number of it is actually keeps keeps rising eight hundred people alone have. died in this prefecture where i am the worst hit me and he prefecture another eight hundred elsewhere in the country but there are fears that back could rise to over ten thousand because in new yankee prefecture alone it's one town that has ten thousand residents still unaccounted for out in the sea this floating debris that navy ships are sifting through very meticulously because they think they could still find some survivors a sixty year old man was actually found in the last few hours floating on the roof of his house floated out to sea and he's been there for three days so this to

a chance of finding survivors. a bonus reporting there from sendai capital of the region worst hit by the tsunami and japanese authorities trying to deal with the danger of a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant international nuclear experts say the situation is stabilizing russia's atomic agency also says however that there's not enough information to be certain about their reactors safety meanwhile imagines as so says are on high alert in russia's far east region close to northern japan oh she's you can see you know that actually is in the area where it's. michel's insofar you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia spore is ever seen and you can hear part launched in fukushima was hit by an explosion they've been warning touring levels closely we can even check the radiation levels for ourselves this is the so-called geiger counter and this is used in professional safe nickel gora trays by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it

measures radiation levels around and that it is showing is jumping between two and three micros per hour this is way less than the average in moscow for example and also as a comparison a passenger flying on a plane from moscow to vladivostok receives as many as twenty two microns per hour which is. the figure here in. the capital of the civilians region the russian security services are still on high alert as there are conflicting reports from officials in japan that's a possibility of a nuclear meltdown is very high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now monitoring measuring levels of radiation not only in russia but also in the arctic for example but they are also saying that even in the worst case scenario the country should be spared any fallout what we know from independent experts experts is that a lot depends on the weather the good news is that the weans is now going in the

direction of the pacific ocean now but the weather is changeable and things could also quickly even if the worst scenario takes place and there was an explosion inside a reactor at the fukushima plant that would mean that radiation would be spreading in waves and these region of russia is the closest would be the closest to the epicenter of the nuclear tragedy. where we are now is only six hundred miles away from fukushima and russia's coral islands are some two hundred miles now people of course have gained. morris some of our leaders news and they've been closely monitoring reports on t.v. in the beginning they were afraid of another natural disaster he's seeing the close . what they are afraid of now is as a part of possibility of radiation contamination and they've been calling emergencies ministry the line is almost always been easy and trying to find out

what preventive measures could be taken i mean you told me that as they watch news reports they can't believe their eyes that these disaster is unfolding so close in such a vicinity to russia's if in the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could hit the northern coast of russia they are afraid of another tour novel now which could happen close to their homes. radiation levels seven hundred times higher than normal have been recorded at a second nuclear power plant in northeastern japan authorities are currently investigating the claims of the facility in on a guy way initial reports the radiation may have blown in from fukushima dr robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute says that if that's the case the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the fukushima reactor may not be enough. the claims of the japanese government at this point is that the radiation they want to go

reactor are not coming from that the reactors at that site but are actually from fukushima number one from the explosion in fukushima number one so this is boring as well because if this is true this would indicate that the radiation from fukushima has reached quite a distance from the plant itself the claims are that the radiation levels were high briefly and then went down and this would correspond to the timing of the explosion in fukushima but as i say seeing as how the evacuation area has been ten fifteen twenty kilometers away if in the next prefecture if radiate measurable radiation was present then obviously radiation is spreading beyond the evacuated area it is on the other side of the bay from sendai it's north of sendai whereas the fukushima site is south of sendai so that would be quite a distance that would certainly indicate that if it did travel that far that there was not open measurable radiation in sendai city itself i think that there's a very conflicting reports coming out on the one hand you have the japanese

government claiming that there was some melting of the fuel in the number three reactor at fukushima number one site and then you say you also have reports that they are they were in error when they said that that any of the fuel had melted i don't there's two possibilities obviously one is that dire information is being withheld in an effort to make the situation seem better than it is and also to avoid panic but the other perhaps more likely scenario is that the government is not quite certain of the state of affairs in the reactors and so you're finding conflicting reports coming out from different spokespeople but either either scenario certainly suggests the situation is far from under control. and also just on shoulder to shoulder with tokyo during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers is heading to japan with another due to take off from the country's far east on monday and as i think so you know explains russia is no stranger to dealing with the nuclear threat facing japan having first

hand experience of the world's worst atomic disaster during the soviet era. spare no effort in getting the job done this typical motto for construction projects in the soviet union also applied to the chernobyl nuclear power plant when construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. and the birth rate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and waited. but this happy existence came to an abrupt end on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same motto use for building the plants where no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst ever manmade nuclear disasters the blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed pretty driven but which were elated deemed

crazy effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of a sarcophagus structure built around the reactor to seal it off for several months after the attacks defeat the lessons of chernobyl have been learned by experts worldwide since the catastrophe and will have been of assistance to those battling the latest serious nuclear accident in japan threatening contamination with large numbers of people being evacuated because of the radiation threat something which didn't happen twenty five years ago in saudi ukraine the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the blast also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago and what is now silver in ukraine prove to be an invaluable lesson for mankind alexi russia r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. stay with us here for the latest developments

entrepreneur and our web site. as well. until all the news the solid forces loyal to colonel gadhafi are gaining momentum in the east amid international calls for him to step down libyan media reports say rebel groups have been driven out of several key all towns all she's pulled is clear has the latest from the region or. looking stated a vision is reporting that forces loyal to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi have now retaken the oil town of great get in the east of the country according to state television this town has been to quote him clear instead of armed gangs gregor is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hitting clashes happening there but we haven't as of yet been able to independently verify these state television reports in the past state television has been faulty in its reporting it based very often preempting the sexists as are they got his name before that actually happened but we can confirm that the definition is all it

wants and eastwards they are encountering increasingly loosely organized rebel groups they do not have enough equipment and they lack leadership and until now what really has been a unifying factor which is enthusiasm is slowly starting to the way people are asking the question for hum much longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich port of the rest of the latest reports there is a case of the talent is in the hands of gadhafi is mean we've been hearing from able groups that they have the numbers but they do not have the equal meant to take on his soldiers rebel groups to have well come to the court from the arab league for a no fly zone to be implemented over libya this call came saturday when the foreign ministers of the arab league meeting in cairo they have now called on the united nations security council to implement a no fly over the country but they've made the point that this mess is not illegal and has not be confused with foreign military intervention they say they could

duffy has lost the legitimacy to rule as you can well expect gadhafi and his regime have criticized this call from the arab league so be on the ground as good duffy's forces made advances they are losing the war on the international front very much the feeling that they are being abandoned by the former frames but at the same time the rebel groups themselves are also feeling increasingly hopeless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where. front line is it's very often shots from one point to be either the fear that any kind of foreign involvement whether in the form of a no fly zone or in any kind of humanitarian assistance or anything else will be motivated by self-interest of the united states and the european union that they will not really be acting in the interests of libyan people much concerned about the safety of the rebel groups themselves been as he still remains the stronghold of the rebel groups we are hearing from gadhafi is named if they are making their way there and they've been given ghazi force to quote him well very any kind of

destructions and all of the kinds of fighting that we've witnessed over the past month will come to an end here in tripoli the situation remains calm and quiet people here have accused the international community and the foreign media that feeds it of being alarmist they say that they have exaggerated the situation let's take a look there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close only nowadays people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have fled the country but the argument that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow have been several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadhafi has offered access to foreign media but only if the camera lenses stay well away from any of the opposition but it's

a similar picture in the opposition strongholds after ramadan break he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from liberals you have to print the version of events he says or nothing media. it's going to the hot places and all these cities are controlled by the providers and even the people there for. the new was what i think and what they believe and many gadhafi supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the rebels he's losing the information like here in jones who outside tripoli with schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry by reports that most know he's was cheating people in her town is it sure is probably. right. and life certainly seems hard on the streets. of tweet this civil war in libya except that it's coming from constantly distance do you think that they will be

civil. everything is normal right now and the future may be ok we would normally as for conflicts elsewhere with it it counts as climbing this little media coverage and even less foreign interest to intervene there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason. you oil think we'd be in iraq if the major adds were there was broccoli so as leaders meet in brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans are saying it's the image and they'll clean it out policy r.t.d. john zogby. and meanwhile for the online newspaper the daily bell believes nato member states are putting huge pressure on libyans so now at

a crossroads between islamic fundamentalism or western style government. there's quite a bit of speculation as to act actually who is who is pulling the strings of what's happening in libya i think what you're going to see here is a secular style western government that will be introduced post. but that that will that will fail i believe within a very short period of time and i believe that is where we will see a more fundamentalist islamic type of government that will surface and take power it should be a natural democratic shift within the middle east or in any of these countries if there's going to be change it should be change that is and i hate that word but i'll use it anyway because it's the word of the day again but change in the middle east should be driven naturally by the people themselves they're going to get the help whether they wanted to or not and some would say that the help is basically what's been driving this revolution to begin with and not to say or take anything away from the people in libya who are fighting and putting their lives on the line here to to actually make some form of a change but you know you look at what's happening in the world today and the pressure that's mounting with respect to foreign intervention being demanded

especially from the western mainstream media you would have to think that the western media trumpeting such intervention is something that is heard loud and clear within libya by the libyan people as well and the people on the ground who are leading this movement they're influencing factors but i don't believe that there's necessarily a unified on the ground presence in libya that is being cohesively led by any one group or any one individual and that means also that there are certainly fundamentalists and others within the libyan population who do not wish to have any foreign intervention at all there are others who would probably like to see it happen. the u.s. president was announced that this week to boost trade and encourage the further set of relations between the two countries while several issues were discussed including the bed joe biden said he was keen to correct the previous administration of mistakes and economic ties with russia to meet him and that of joe biden that last vice president won't be working on russia's bid for the world trade organization membership to the end of his career and promised his personal support

from us as in clinton and chelsea a political effort from the u.s. council on foreign relations russia and the u.s. about the through a new safe and perfect time. and i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of the so-called reset phase one was all about security and high politics it was about the new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan and that really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start now i think what we're talking about is more societal cantar at cross when it crosses the borders people traveling more than twenty two countries are trying to build the confidence that the vice president just talked to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper in its social roots. now let's get more nothing

to our national news making headlines around the world at least one person has done the one hundred one hundred antigovernment protests and gone there after police opened fire on crowds of the council six and all were killed on saturday demonstrating for their ends to resident. thirty two year rule witnesses were also bombarded with which was that of injuries there's been continual unrest against the dictates of this mid february. u.s. state department spokesman p.j. crowley has quit following criticism he made or treatment of bradley manning the soldier who was awaiting trial for allegedly supplying advanced sure that secret information to weaken links the senior aide is believed to have resigned under the white house after telling a small group of university their point of the writings treatment was ridiculous counterproductive and stupid is confined. to twenty three hours a day and does not have to pay those of blankets right at the press conference on

friday president obama assured john that if you are the printer going to was being mistreated and that the pentagon has said. israel will build the full hundred homes in jewish settlements in the occupied west bank then also came a day after five israeli settlers were starved to death in their home so the children under a baby were among those killed with palestinian extremists suspected palestinian leaders have refused to continue talks with israel until new settlement construction reaches a national voice. earlier this week russia's republic of chechnya hosted a normal star much widely seen as a major step forward for the region a team of brazilian football veterans arrived for a charity game against a team captained by chechen leader runs on computer she's turned boston explores her arena for military conflict is leaving its bloody cars behind in favor. it must rank as one of the more purest fixtures in football history but

a press conference late the night before chechen is leader ramzan kadyrov spoke of his excitement at the arrival of the opposition it's a real holiday for laughs fans have been waiting for this event for such a long time it's an exciting day and i know that many of those who left the republic years ago are coming back to enjoy the match but many reporters there doubted a team of brazilian veterans who'd really come to play in chechnya the next day he was greeted at the airport by a sea shepherd who are a style kadeer of places shouting supporters. walking into this cult like scene a liberation in t. looking a little bit mused the chechens however static. i can't believe this is happening we couldn't even dream of an event like this happening the full i've come to grozny specially for this much and i think it will raise this sad memories of the past and everything will be great. five years ago this match would have been

unthinkable and it was in ruins after two military campaigns from the mid one nine hundred ninety s. following an insurgency it was in this very stadium that ramzan kadyrov father was blown up a decade before the area is still subject to high levels of security is the threat of terrorism as it moved towards normality after years of conflict since which caused me it's come a long way educated and things change every day we see new facilities being built and people understand that they have to forget the past and move on come kickoff time the stadium was bursting at the scene brazil scored an easy first goal followed by repeated attempts by the chechens to get one back. who knows what was said in the changing room but the deer of had made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing two penalties he eventually managed to get himself in the school should the game ended six four to brazil. because. it was

a very disappointing score but what can we do our game is again we want to win but we lost the brazilian sunshine again because ian team is the strongest in the world today a look a lot they were keen to stress they were making the charity their visits or checks to make world headlines again but this time the sport confirmed. it will take more than just a football must change the structure of war on terrorism away from chechnya and the north caucasus but for now the spirit of friendly competition everyone here agrees it's a step or kick in the right direction tommaso not saying chechnya. you're watching us a crazy life from moscow ok beyond that of the latest news coming out of japan and also you can find the latest on our website i'll see your home on the headlines our next guest was.

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